Y580 - Disable Touchpad Buttons Only?

Q:Y580 - Disable Touchpad Buttons Only?

This may sound like an odd request, but is there a way to disable the touchpad buttons from moving the mouse, but still have them work when they're pressed? Here's what happens...I'm using the touchpad and I hit the left button and it moves my mouse pointer a little. But I don't want it to move. I just want to press the button without my touching it causing the pointer to move a little. It really screws with some things I do.

Is there any solution to this? If not, can I buy a completely different touchpad?

Thanks

- Brian

Mod's Edit: System model added to the front of Subject line to improve visibility / clarity. Model name based on prior forum activity.

This may sound like an odd request, but is there a way to disable the touchpad buttons from moving the mouse, but still have them work when they're pressed? Here's what happens...I'm using the touchpad and I hit the left button and it moves my mouse pointer a little. But I don't want it to move. I just want to press the button without my touching it causing the pointer to move a little. It really screws with some things I do.

Is there any solution to this? If not, can I buy a completely different touchpad?

Thanks

- Brian

Mod's Edit: System model added to the front of Subject line to improve visibility / clarity. Model name based on prior forum activity.

ideally, i would like for any mouseclicks and menu opening commands made within X microseconds of a keystroke to be discarded, with the user setting the value of X.

for the record, i'm working on a laptop (2730p) which has mousebuttons and menu buttons quite close to the typing keys, and i have on occassion overwritten entire paragraphs and somehow even issued a close program command while furiously typing. needless to say, i would like a fix for this.

A:How does one disable touchpad and mouse + menu buttons when typing?

Hi, You can refer to the link which might help you:-http://www.ehow.com/how_7256993_disable-touchpad-hp-notebook.htmlAlso you can look into the manufacture's website for any key combination to enable/disable the touchpad.Thanks and Regards Deepa_R *moderator edit: removed shortened link and replaced it with full link - Queen-Evie*

If anyone has acces to the connections/schematics for the M4600 touchpad/button assembly, I'd love to see them! For some reason both the right buttons have stopped working. Tried to disconnect/reconnect the 14 pin "touchpad cable from the mainboard, but unfortunately this did not do the trick. Need to look a bit deeper - so would love to see the schematics or at least the pinout of the connector(s)... (It's a button - how hard can it be to fix... ;-)Thanks and best regards, Anders

I'm 11 and using Ubuntu 17.04 Linux on my Lenovo Y580. The problem I'm having seems to effect every operating system I've used on it. The touchpad flips out randomly and sometimes stops working at all. Sometimes it will start to work but only for so long. It's will massively teleport up and down until I start hitting it a little bit, but this is bothering me and hitting it probably makes it worse. Any help would be appreciated. feel free to ask more advanced questions just because I'm 11. I will understand for sure.

Hey all, I recently installed an SSD in my old y580 laptop and reinstalled windows 10 but windows is registering the touchpad as a mouse plugged into the PS/2 port. As such, the touchpad inputs are far from optimized and no multi-finger gestures are being recognized (including scrolling ). The previous HDD recently died but definitely used elan/synaptics drivers. I've had this problem occur on other Lenovo laptops and I've seen others posting about it on here, but never for the y580 and I've never been able to solve it. I've downloaded all of the touchpad drivers on the support page for my serial number but none of them go up to windows 10 and all of them result in an error message that reads that the Realtek Bluetooth Suite isn't compatible with this version of windows. I've also downloaded 15-20 different drivers for windows 10 elan/synaptics touchpads from varying newer lenovo laptops but none of them recognize my touchpad either. Any help would be super appreciated.

I did a touchpad update and now the buttons switch around. when one works the other will pop up with a tiny menu ive never seen before. If both buttons work the touchpad wont work. I have put them to default and it works for a bit then will switch again. Didn't have this problem till that stupid update. I have a dell 15-3552 laptop and its less than 2 months old.

The leftmost touchpad button (not the ones in between the keyboards and touchpad, the buttons below the touchpad), is sticking. The other two bounce right up like the keyboard keys, but the left one has worn down it's spring after heavy use. Is there a replacement option for this other than replacing the entire upper casing (595775-001)?

I have a dell inspiron 7720 laptop, and the buttons on the pad have stopped working suddenly. I am unable to move panels around, expand or shrink them, ad I also get an annoying circle which then lets me scroll up down ect, but can not use the side bar to move up and down the page.

I have a Inspiron 1500, model 3558, with a touchpad oddity. Only about the leftmost ½" of the mouse button acts as a left mouse click. The rest of the button acts as a right click. Since I left-click probably 100 times as often as I right-click, this is very inconvenient. Dell Tech Support was completely useless when I called in. Does anyone know how to adjust this setting, if it is adjustable?

A:Touchpad mouse buttons

You could try reloading the driver for the 3558 touchpad here and then try checking the settings using touchpad properties, but I am not aware of any settings that could change this.On your system do you currently have warranty? It might be that the palmrest needs to be replaced.Best regards,Brad

I switched the buttons on a Kensington Ball mouse. Switched them back. Shortly afterward, the buttons on my P50 touchpad work in a reversed manner (left button brings up a menu, right button provides a click). The Click Point buttons work properly. I installed the latest lenovo update and the latest Windows 10 update (1703?), which took 4 hours. Machine is still under warranty, but what a pain!

I have a Toshiba Satellite A200-27Z. It is a fairly old laptop running Vista but there are no plans to get rid of it yet!

A couple of weeks ago the touchpad and mouse buttons stopped working. There was no lead up to this, just suddenly stopped. This lead to a second issue with my wireless connection which I eventually had to solve by re-installing Windows (I sought help in this thread http://forums.techguy.org/windows-vista/1125652-wireless-password-not-accepted.html#post8906770).

The fresh install of Windows fixed my wireless issues but strangely the touch pad and buttons still don't work at all. Given that I just installed Windows with all the drivers does that mean this is a hardware fault? And is there a way to fix it or do I now have to rely on the USB mouse?

Thank you in advance for any help,

John

A:Touchpad and buttons not working

Since you re-installed Windows with fresh install of drivers for the touchpad, chances are good that it is a hardware failure.

Hi MRIGANKPAWAGI,What is the exact system model? Are both the left and right buttons not functional? Are these buttons mechanically functional or are they stuck? What is the current OS installed on the system? Does the touchpad register a click?Restart the system and press f12 key on startup - choose diagnostics. Let it run the diags and if you encounter any errors - make a note of the complete error and report the same to us. These are onboard diagnostics and they might possible pick some error if the hardware is not functional. If there is no warranty, then you could contact our team to get a quote for a paid service call - http://dell.to/1vnT6CQAlso, please click my DELL-username and write me a private conversation with the service tag and your contact details(Name and Email) for case records.Let us know if you have any other queries.

hi. I need help for my Vostro 1500 laptop. suddenly the touchpad buttons located right below the touchpad have stopped working. everything else is working fine including the keyboard and the touchpad. i have tried uninstalling and re-installing some of the drivers, but still it doesn't work. Please help.

Dell 2-in-1 3147:The "DELL Pointing Devices" dialog shows a "Disable Touchpad when USB Mouse Present" checkbox. If this checkbox is clear, the touchpad works properly. When this checkbox is marked, the touchpad does not work at all.I have tried both USB and Bluetooth mice, and neither one allows the proper action: the touchpad should be enabled without a mouse, and the touchpad should be disabled with a mouse. That's how it works on other systems. It just doesn't work at all on this system.I suspect there is some interaction between the touchpad and the touchscreen that is interfering with this setting. But I have another laptop with a touchpad and a touchscreen, and the mouse detection works there (it's not a DELL).Yes, I have toyed with the idea of deleting the DELL touchpad control application and installing a "stock" Synaptics touchpad driver. But I don't want the DELL "update" app to overwrite it with the DELL touchpad control app every time it sees "the wrong driver" loaded. And I don't want to take the chance that the touchpad driver and the touchscreen driver are somehow linked together, thus disabling one when I disable the other.Any ideas on how to get the "Disable Touchpad when USB Mouse Present" action working would be welcome.

I am trying to configure my Syanptics Touchpad on my TravelMate 5520. I have been into mouse options but there is no tab for Synaptics touchpad. I would like to know how to do this or do I need a driver, if so could you point me to a location thanks.

I phoned up the support people, they said that they want me to do a full system recovery, (i can not do this...)

My problem is, I use the touchpad/USB mouse on and off, depending where i am.

Last night i was at my desk, and I plugged in my mouse, When i moved to somewhere comfortable, I unplugged my mouse, and now my touchpad's buttons (left and right) dont work, well they do, but they work as the scroll button (open things in tabs ect)

What can i do to fix this problem? I was told that i need to do a full system recovery to see if its a hardware problem. This has never happened before.

The laptop is a Compaq Presario C700 and I have had it since december.

I can backup by documents, but I need my software... (in total, easily ?5000, but no serials(got serials over phone), so i cant get new ones...)

hello all. i have an t450s, and after ai install drivers for synaptics touchpad, the 3 buttons stop to work, and in the properties, the option is grayed out. but if i delete the drivers completely, the buttons work fine. also, i have tried different versions of the driver, the problem remains the same. does anyone know how to solve this problem?

I bought the lenova yoga 300 few months back for my daughter and she was using it. Just today I was checking with her and she indicated the left and right buttons in trackpad never worked from day-1. I tried updating drivers, no use. Should I return it? no other options?

Hi all Can anyone help me diagnose a problem I'm having with a friends T410. The trackpoint and touchpad buttons have stopped working (both left and right click). I am forced to use the laptop with an external mouse. The trackpad and touchpoint themselves both work just can't click anything, I have tried uninstalling drivers and re-installing but that hasn't helped, have also run Hirens boot cd - Mini XP mode and the buttons don't work there either. Sounds like a hardware issue to me but would like a second opinion before I start pulling it apart! Many thanks Chris

A:Touchpad and Trackpoint buttons not working

Hi whitehouse87, Welcome to Lenovo Community! And happy to have you again.

As I understand that you are facing issue with Touchpad & Trackpoint buttons are not working in T410.You have tried almost everything & I don't think so its related to software or drivers. You can check without drivers once whether clicks are working or not. Else its a hardware issue for sure

I hope the above information helped you.Please feel free to post in Lenovo Community Forums if you have any further queries!

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My Y700 is few month old and recently I have noticed that clicks on the touchpad do not work. Tracking and all gestures work fine except left and right buttons. All drivers are up to date. Apparently this problem occured because of windows update and according to this forum some people have it as well, however there are no desent replies neither from users nor lenovo.So, how do I fix this problem? p.s. windows 10 pro, Y700 15isk (80NV00D8PB)

Hello, I am coming from a Lenovo T61, and I LOVED the touchpad and buttons on that laptop.I do not like not having physical left and right click buttons, I do know you can click on the bottom left and right of the trackpad to achieve this but it sucks because I like to leave my thumb on the left click button while I use the track pad with my pointer, but the left click button area will also move the mouse cursor so my thumb moves it when I try to click and half the time the pointer moves before the button is pressed all the way. Can you disable the trackpad where the left and right click buttons are? If that is not doable, I guess I am going to have to cave in on tapping I've always had issues with that on laptops, tapping things while I am moving around.I was thinking, maybe I can set 2 finger tap for left click and 3 finger tap for right click? How can I do that?

A:Yoga 2 Pro Touchpad Buttons - Any tips?

coming from x220t I have this same issue...losing the trackpoint was huge but slowly getting over it.I'd like to see two fingers plus click for right click though, that's be nice

After having to re-install Windows 7 on my laptop I've found that the trackpad and associated mouse buttons are no longer working. The keyboard works fine.The touch screen works fine.When I inserted an external mouse, it automatically installed the driver and worked without issue.I installed the Synaptics TouchPad Driverbut that didn't make any difference. I also tried removing the battery, holding the power button for 30 seconds, re-instering the power cable (but not the battery) and booting up the latop. It was working fine before the re-install so I can ssume i's not a hardware fault and if the keyboard works the interface cable is also working... Just wondering if anyone has had the same issue and can suggest anything?

I have a brand new Yoga 300 straight out of the box and the touchpad buttons (right and left click) do not work. If I connect an external mouse it works normally. Is this a common problem or is this device faulty. Thank you in advance for any suggestions.

Hi, My TouchPad buttons are not working anymore. I don't know if the problem is a hardware failure or that the buttons maybe have been disabled by mistake.I have checked the UltraNav settings in the control panel as reset the values to default without any luck.Furthermore I have checked the bios settings which were set to the default values. I'm not using a mouse or any other pointers. Does any one have any suggestion before I return the T410 to the dealer for repair. The T410 is 2 weeks 'old'.

I have tried reinstalling drivers and flashing the BIOS. Also formatted my net book, changed from Windows 7 to 8.
No mouse or touch pad are showing in Device Manager. Perhaps I use the wrong set of drivers?

I have posted this problem in the Toshiba USA forum as well:
http://forums.toshiba.com/t5/Keyboards-Touchpads/NB200-Touchpad-2-Buttons-Failure/td-p/342532

Any suggestions?

A:NB200 Touchpad + 2 Buttons Failure

> No mouse or touch pad are showing in Device Manager. Perhaps I use the wrong set of drivers?

The touchpad device should be visible in device manager; either as unknown device or device marked with an yellow exclamation mark?.this should be visible even if the driver would not be installed.

But if the device (touchpad ) is recognized by system, then either is disabled (in BIOS) or it malfunctions.
Check the BIOS settings.
There you could enable / disable touchpad (pointing device)

I have a zbook 17 and would like to acticate the touchpad buttons. There are 6 buttons (3 above and 3 below the touchpad). How do you activate these and then specify their action. I cannot find an option to turn these on in the synaptic touchpad mouse settings.

A:zbook 17 touchpad buttons activation

Hi Matt0000, What generation is your Zbook 17? In regards to the touchpad issue, please check your touchpad to see if there is any amber light on the top left/right corner. If there is, double tap it. When the amber light is there, it means the touchpad is disabled. If that doesn't fix the issue, please go to our HP drivers page (http://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers) and install the Synaptics Mouse driver. Once you have installed the driver, restart the notebook and open Synaptics software. Most likely it will be located on the task bar. You should be able to control your touchpad feature there. Thank you, -Tenzin

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Yesterday the left and right buttons on my touchpad started to mess up. Clicking the left button sometimes wouldn't do anything and sometimes it would bring up the right-click menu. I would have to right-click something first before I could do anything to it with the left click nearly all the time. The right button sometimes won't bring up the menu and sometimes it will but only for a second. There are also random times where the menu will pop up when I just barely touch the right button.

I've already checked the mouse options and they're all set correctly and also reinstalled the correct driver from Vaio's website and nothing works.

The only thing that's happened when the buttons started messing up was that my computer was badgering me about restarting to complete a few updates. I also watched a movie too though that was about a day or two before, so it might either be something from the update that my computer can't handle anymore or a virus, least that's what I think but I don't know anything so I'm asking you guys.

i have problem, i have new computer (bought it few days ago) and i cant use my touchpad while holding any button(in any program.its not virus i didnt download anything, please help. Maybe i have to download drivers or something like that?

Hello,today I reinstalled my HP ProBook 6460b to Win 8.1 64-bit. When I first started the notebook but the touchpad left and right buttons do not work. Even after installing windows updates and drivers - I downloaded all from HP site but some had problems during installation but touchpad driver installed right. When I checked driver manager there were 2 not instaled devices - Unknow device and Base System Driver - I installed that Unknown driver but Base System driver is still missing.On every HP forum I saw, HP experts say to download and install this:http://h20566.www2.hp.com/hpsc/swd/public/detail?sp4ts.oid=5045596&swItemId=ob_115197_1&lang=en&cc=u...but it did not solve my problem.

So I have 2 hp 15 laptops on the left button has been smashed the flat spring type thing won't pop back up so I took the mouse buttons from the other and removed the broken button board and the replacement wouldn't work and made the touchpad not click also when replacing the button board do I need to install/reinstall drivers for it .?

I am only able to use my plugged in mouse, I have checked the device drivers, says all are up to date. The keyboard on the machine is working it is only the touchpad that seems to be disabled, I have also changed the setting but to no avail.

Hello, my company has provided me with a Pavilion laptop running Win8.1, it has no buttons on the touchpad. How do you draw around an object when using the snipping tool, or how do you drag and drop a file? Is an external mouse required? Thanks.

Hello,today I reinstalled my HP ProBook 6460b to Win 8.1 64-bit. When I first started the notebook but the touchpad left and right buttons do not work. Even after installing windows updates and drivers - I downloaded all from HP site but some had problems during installation but touchpad driver installed right. When I checked driver manager there were 2 not instaled devices - Unknow device and Base System Driver - I installed that Unknown driver but Base System driver is still missing.On every HP forum I saw, HP experts say to download and install this:http://h20566.www2.hp.com/hpsc/swd/public/detail?sp4ts.oid=5045596&swItemId=ob_115197_1&lang=en&cc=u...but it did not solve my problem.

Hello Forum Community, Here at Lenovo we would like your opinion on ThinkPad product styling. We would like your opinion on which touchpad buttons do you prefer? There is no functionality difference between the two pictures below. Let us know which touchpad style you prefer? Please record your response via the survey link below. Thank you in advance! TouchPad Poll

Hi, whilst on my laptop today for no apparent reason my touchpad decided to stop working properly, it will still move the mouse around the screen, however does nothing when I double tap anything. The left click button has also ceased to work at all, click and nothing the right hand button is working fine.

I have reinstalled the drivers and I am currently using a mouse via the USB port which is working fine. I have also checked the options to make sure that the left click hasn't been assigned to another button or something odd like that. I'm afraid I really am at a bit of a loss as to what could be wrong.

If anyone could please point me in the right direction I'd really appreciate it!! Thanks guys

Hi,I would like to buy a touch pad with 3 physical buttons instead of original one without buttons, model E440.I found such possibility for T440, but its size of touch pad is 100mm x 75mm, whereas size for E440 is 100mm x 65 mm (think same as E431).Thanks!

The touchpad on my laptop has stopped responding to taps and clicks (physical button). The touchpad continues to works to move the cursor, but will not tap or click to select. The touchpad is NOT off and I have double/triple checked the Properties for the Synaptics ClickPad and all is in line with the HP self-help guide. Please help!

We have recently performed a fresh install of Windows 7 x64 on a Toshiba Tecra A10.
The OS has picked up most drivers, we had to install drivers for the card reader ourselves.

Our problem is that the touchpad and buttons do not work at all.
The driver shows in Device Manager as being properly installed, but that's all. I have even installed the Alps Control Panel (Vista x64) which runs okay.
Have tried the "Touch pad and stick are automatically invalidated" settings when using an external USB mouse, all to no avail.

The hardware was working perfectly okay with Windows 7 32 Bit installed.

Is there a fix here?

A:Tecra A10 - Touchpad and buttons do not work on Windows 7 x64

Hello

Maybe it?s just a driver issue? I have checked the available downloads for Tecra A10 on Toshiba page and for Windows 7 32bit there is a newer driver available, for Windows 7 64bit not (no driver). So you must use the Vista 64bit driver?

What you can do is testing the touchpad driver for Tecra A11. There is a newer version for Windows 7 64bit from Alps Electric so the correct one. Touchpad driver is not system related so I?m pretty sure it also works on your model.

I have a Toshiba Satellite A105 running XP with a few problems. Sometimes there is no display when Windows loads. It is just a blank screen. The same problem occurs booting into safe mode. Sometimes there is a display and sometimes not. It is the same using an external monitor. I can go into setup without any problems so the problem is when Windows loads.

Another problem - the mouse buttons do not work when I am able to see the display. I can move the cursor but I cannot click on anything. I also cannot use Ctrl Esc to access the Start menu. I cannot open any icons or right click to get the properties box. It is the same with an external mouse.

This computer has a virus, Spyware Guard 2008. When I was first given the computer to clean I was able to use the mouse buttons and could see the display. I was not able to run any executables when I tried to install some spyware and antivirus programs. I don't know if the virus was able to prevent loading those programs.

Someone else closed some processes in Task Manager. The problems with the display and mouse buttons may have started after that. Could there be something that I need to enable?

I currently have the laptop booted into safe mode and can see the display (intermittent problem). The mouse buttons do not work. I can move the cursor but cannot click. When I hover over the Start button I get an hourglass. I cannot open Task Manager.